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Book The Fate of the Fenwicks

Download or read book The Fate of the Fenwicks written by Eliza Fenwick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fate of the Fenwicks

Download or read book The Fate of the Fenwicks written by Eliza Fenwick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secresy   Second Edition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eliza Fenwick
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 1998-10-09
  • ISBN : 9781551112169
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Secresy Second Edition written by Eliza Fenwick and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1998-10-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her friend Caroline implicitly rejects the substance as well as the trappings of a system that rested on class privilege and on female dependence. Secresy is also, though, a remarkable novel of human relationships: of sexuality (Sibella’s pregnancy is the occasion for the secrecy that gives the book its title), and of romantic love, but also the female friendship between Sibella and Caroline that is very much at the heart of the book. The relationships—and the grand themes—are expressed through an epistolary technique through which Fenwick (in the editor’s words) shows "a breadth of sympathy which can find comedic pleasure even in what is disapproved.”

Book The Bad Family and Other Stories

Download or read book The Bad Family and Other Stories written by Mrs. Fenwick and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) was an English author. Fenwick's letters (1798-1828) to her friend Mary Hays were edited and published in 1927 by A. F. Wedd in a book titled The Fate of the Fenwicks. She was a good friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, as well as William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Holcroft, and Crabb Robinson and other literary figures living in the late 1700s. Her 1795 novel Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock, continues to be studied in universities worldwide. She also wrote The Bad Family and Other Stories (1898) as well as several children's books.

Book The Idea of Being Free

Download or read book The Idea of Being Free written by Gina Luria Walker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.

Book Eliza Fenwick

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lissa Paul
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2019-05-10
  • ISBN : 1644530112
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Eliza Fenwick written by Lissa Paul and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner. Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the first time to reveal the relationships she developed with many key figures of her era, and to tell Fenwick’s story as depicted by the woman herself. Fenwick began as a writer in the radical London of the 1790s, a member of Mary Wollstonecraft’s circle, and when her marriage crumbled, she became a prolific author of children’s literature to support her family. Eventually Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the owner of a school while confronting the reality of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities in the United States and Canada, all the while taking care of her daughter and grandchildren and maintaining her friendships through letters that, as presented here, tell the story of her life. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Book Wives   Mothers   Daughters   Widows

Download or read book Wives Mothers Daughters Widows written by Sue Appleby and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cornwall has for centuries been the source of migrants to all parts of the world. This has generated a broad literature on Cornish emigration and the Cornish abroad, much of it concentrated on the better-known destinations of the USA, Australia, and South Africa; related to the international mining industry of the 19th century; and dominated by men and their stories. Appleby breaks the mould by examining the lives of female indentured servants, wives of mariners, miners, and missionaries, and ‘ladies of quality’, who, for many different reasons, spent time in the Caribbean. There has been a gathering tide of research and literature into the lives of Cornish women in recent years but, so far, less work has concentrated on the women of the Cornish diaspora, so this new book is a very welcome addition to that literature.” Dr Lesley Trotter, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. Wives - Mothers - Daughters - Widows is the first book to examine the lives of Cornish women who left their homes to spend time in the Caribbean colonies.

Book White Creole Culture  Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition

Download or read book White Creole Culture Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition written by David Lambert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the articulation of white creole identity in Barbados during the age of abolitionism.

Book Women Writing about Money

Download or read book Women Writing about Money written by Edward Copeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional world of women in the time of Jane Austen set in the context of social and economic reality.

Book Caribbean Literature in Transition  1800   1920  Volume 1

Download or read book Caribbean Literature in Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean. Essays examine lesser-known authors and writing previously marginalized as nonliterary: popular writing in newspapers and pamphlets; fiction and poetry such as romances, sentimental novels, and ballads; non-elite memoirs and letters, such as the narratives of the enslaved or the working classes, especially women. Many contributions are comparative, multilingual, and regional. Some infer the cultural presence of subaltern groups within the texts of the dominant classes. Almost all of the chapters move easily between time periods, linking texts, writers, and literary movements in ways that expand traditional notions of literary influence and canon formation. Using literary, cultural, and historical analyses, this book provides a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature.

Book British Family Life  1780   1914  Volume 3

Download or read book British Family Life 1780 1914 Volume 3 written by Claudia Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 2064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

Book The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Michael A. Bucknor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

Book Fatal Errors  or Poor Mary Anne  A Tale of the Last Century

Download or read book Fatal Errors or Poor Mary Anne A Tale of the Last Century written by Timothy Whelan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2015 a novel by Elizabeth Hays (c. 1765-1825) that has eluded scholars of women novelists of the 1790s for more than a century was finally discovered in the British Library. Fatal Errors was written in the late 1790s by the sister of Mary Hays, but not published until 1819 under her married name, Lanfear, and has therefore been completely overlooked until now. There has been considerable interest in the missing novel, since we know that Mary Wollstonecraft read and commented on a version of the manuscript in 1796, but it was presumed never to have been published. Now this missing piece of the conversation of the Hays-Wollstonecraft-Godwin circle has been located this modern critical edition of Fatal Errors contributes both to our knowledge of this network of radical writers and thinkers, and to our understanding of the trajectory of women’s fiction and the Jacobin novel.

Book Engendering History

Download or read book Engendering History written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women's history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles are on the English-speaking Caribbean, highlighting the research pattern in Caribbean women's history.

Book A Kick in the Belly

Download or read book A Kick in the Belly written by Stella Abasa Dadzie and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance across the Caribbean. Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave rebellions and liberation. There are African queens, such as Amina, who led a 20,000-strong army. There is Mary Prince, sold at twelve years old, never to see her sisters or mother again. Asante Nanny the Maroon, the legendary obeah sorceress, who guided the rebel forces in the Blue Mountains during the First Maroon War. Whether responding to the horrendous conditions of plantation life, the sadistic vagaries of their captors or the “peculiar burdens of their sex,” their collective sanity relied on a highly subversive adaptation of the values and cultures they smuggled from their lost homes. By sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices, they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning and purpose. A Kick in the Belly makes clear that subtle acts of insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine the very fabric of West Indian slavery.

Book More Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 902 pages

Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.